Pdf downloader sometimes drops photos & hacks-up words & lines of text.
by jude7 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5K08D)
Running Mint 18.2, Cinnamon 3.4.3, Brave browser (Chromium-based), on a Dell i7 laptop.
I download lessons from an on-line course, as multi-page pdf's, using the provided "Print" function in Brave.
The problem is that the pdf's sometimes end-up with large, unpredictable fractions of the lesson's illustrations simply omitted; a blank space in the place of the illustration, with a border around the space, AND, also, words or parts of words in the text areas, at the end of a first line on a page may sometimes obscured by a dumb-looking logo or something, or even the top-half of an entire line of text at the top of a page may be simply lopped-off.
There seems to be no rhyme or reason for what ends-up missing or mangled, and a retry on another day may give what appears to be a perfect download, but I can'tbe sure of that unless I do a line-by-line comparison - hardly practical.
SEE ATTACHED PDF FOR AN EXAMPLE OF THE ISSUES
I thought maybe the issues could be due to time-outs, owing to variable traffic volumes on the public router I'm am connected to while downloading, in which case, switching to another pdf downloader would likely make no difference.
If the issue is external to my machine, is there a downloader that would deal with the issue?
Is the problem in my laptop - the pdf downloader?
I download lessons from an on-line course, as multi-page pdf's, using the provided "Print" function in Brave.
The problem is that the pdf's sometimes end-up with large, unpredictable fractions of the lesson's illustrations simply omitted; a blank space in the place of the illustration, with a border around the space, AND, also, words or parts of words in the text areas, at the end of a first line on a page may sometimes obscured by a dumb-looking logo or something, or even the top-half of an entire line of text at the top of a page may be simply lopped-off.
There seems to be no rhyme or reason for what ends-up missing or mangled, and a retry on another day may give what appears to be a perfect download, but I can'tbe sure of that unless I do a line-by-line comparison - hardly practical.
SEE ATTACHED PDF FOR AN EXAMPLE OF THE ISSUES
I thought maybe the issues could be due to time-outs, owing to variable traffic volumes on the public router I'm am connected to while downloading, in which case, switching to another pdf downloader would likely make no difference.
If the issue is external to my machine, is there a downloader that would deal with the issue?
Is the problem in my laptop - the pdf downloader?